ARCHITECTURAL PECULIARITIES OF THE BUDDHIST PAGODA IN VIETNAM

Abstract

The article analyzes some specific features of
the Buddhist pagoda in Vietnam. The author investigates the
influence of traditional Vietnamese beliefs on Buddhist traditions,
which are reflected in architecture and images of the
Buddhist saints. The fusion of Buddhist traditions and traditional
Vietnamese beliefs is the most impressive and diverse
in the area of Bakbo. We can see this confusion not only in
the architecture of the pagoda but in the icons of saints. The
icon tradition is a separate sphere of the spiritual culture of
the Vietnamese which reflects the imagination of the founders
of the pagoda.